Lovers Leap
Lovers Leap is a cliff in California, at a recorded elevation of 2,063 m. Round Top stands 3,164 m to the southeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Horsetail Falls, a waterfall 2.2 miles away. Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive passes 15 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2063 m
How to reach it
- 15.2 mi off the Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive, National
- 20.4 mi off the Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Cave Rock · 20 mi
- Logan Shoals Vista Point · 21 mi
- Hell's Kitchen Vista Point · 26 mi
- Liberty Vista Point · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Ralston Peak: 2.9 mi
- Pyramid Peak: 3.4 mi
- Huckleberry Mt.: 3.9 mi
- Talking Mountain: 4.2 mi
- Keiths Dome: 4.4 mi
- Fallen Leaf Recreation Center: 6.5 mi
- Tahoe Paradise Park: 7.0 mi
- Lake Valley State Recreation Area: 8.1 mi
- Old Emigrant Trail Historical Marker: 8.5 mi
- Bonanza Community Park: 10.3 mi
- Glen Alpine Spring: 5.6 mi
- Tragedy Spring: 11.0 mi
- Granite Spring: 11.2 mi
- Jim Quinn Spring: 11.5 mi
- Singleton Springs: 12.4 mi
- Glen Alpine Resort: 5.7 mi
- Kit Carson Historical Monument: 10.6 mi
- Snowshoe Thompson Historical Monument: 10.7 mi
- Fannette Island Tea House: 10.9 mi
- Iron Mountain Ski Resort: 12.4 mi
- Cathedral Peak: 6.6 mi
- Detox Wall: 7.1 mi
- Distillery Wall: 7.1 mi
- Sugar Bun: 9.6 mi
- Tallac Point: 10.7 mi
- Horsetail Falls: 2.2 mi
- Modjeska Falls: 5.9 mi
- Cascade Falls: 9.5 mi
- Upper Eagle Falls: 10.5 mi
- Lower Eagle Falls: 10.6 mi
- Andrews Meadows: 5.8 mi
- Linder Grove: 5.8 mi
- Washoe Meadows State Park: 7.8 mi
- Johnson Meadow: 11.2 mi
- Ed Z'berg Sugar Pine Point State Park: 16.8 mi
- Sandy Cove Picnic Area: 9.3 mi
- Eagle Falls Picnic Area: 10.6 mi
- Shot Rock Vista Picnic Area: 12.5 mi
- Cleveland Corral: 15.6 mi
- Meeks Bay Beach: 16.4 mi
- Kiva Beach: 10.8 mi
- Pope Beach: 11.1 mi
- El Dorado Beach: 13.6 mi
- Lester Beach: 14.0 mi
- Lakeside Beach: 14.9 mi
- Tallac Historic Site: 10.8 mi
- Balancing Rock: 13.3 mi
- Rubicon Point Light: 13.8 mi
- Round Hill Pines Beach Resort: 16.4 mi
- M. S. Dixie II Terminal: 17.5 mi
- Baldwin Home: 10.8 mi
- Lake Tahoe Historic Society Museum: 12.9 mi
- Alpine County Museum: 20.3 mi
- Genoa Courthouse Museum: 21.1 mi
- Carson Valley Museum and Cultural Center: 22.9 mi
- Dolly's Vegetable Garden: 10.8 mi
- St Theresa: 12.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.5 miles of Lovers Leap. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round Top | SE 142° | 3,164 m | 11.9 mi |
| The Sisters | SE 144° | 3,094 m | 11.7 mi |
| Red Lake Peak | SE 127° | 3,067 m | 10.0 mi |
| Stevens Peak | ESE 119° | 3,061 m | 9.4 mi |
| Pyramid Peak | NNW 339° | 3,042.818 m | 3.4 mi |
| Dicks Peak | N 353° | 3,042 m | 7.0 mi |
| Mount Price | NNW 335° | 3,040 m | 4.9 mi |
| Agassiz | NNW 335° | 3,038 m | 4.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:38 | 19:13 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 19:50 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:24 | 18:59 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 16:01 | 16:43 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 31 | 36 | 40 | 48 | 55 | 62 | 60 | 54 | 46 | 37 | 30 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 3.7 | 2.9 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — S Lake Tahoe AP, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358798654
Day trips start here
- Bliss State Park · 13 mi
- Homewood · 20 mi
- Lake Tahoe · 21 mi
- Tahoe City · 26 mi
- Olympic Valley · 28 mi
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